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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3231995, member: 83845&quot;][USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER] had a really good description in his write up for his 2018 tournament entry on why <i>Eastern</i> styles became more abstract.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/poll-19-7-bensi-vs-10-cucumbor-round-2-cit-2018.321953/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/poll-19-7-bensi-vs-10-cucumbor-round-2-cit-2018.321953/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/poll-19-7-bensi-vs-10-cucumbor-round-2-cit-2018.321953/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>To quote Bensi:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps this philosophy was consciously copied by rulers in the west who wanted to seem more &quot;Roman&quot; (or Byzantine).&nbsp; I&#039;ve also read somewhere that in late antiquity the style of art in general became more &quot;common&quot; (as in &quot;by-and-for&quot; the common people) and in some ways resembled the style of Roman graffiti.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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